Funny Quotes about Crime

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. — Al Capone

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. — Allen Tucker

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. — Will Rogers

There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move. — David Letterman

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief. — Samuel Butler

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. — George Bernard Shaw

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. — H. L. Mencken

Successful crimes alone are justified. — John Dryden

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. — Freda Adler